It was just after midnight on August 25, 1992, and Susan White's worst fear was on the verge of coming true. With the shrill and panicked sound of her home burglar alarm in...
There's a lot of hooey these days about old outlaws and rowdy friends settling down, and Johnny Cash has become an elder statesman of MTV. Ray Wylie Hubbard, however, has taken...
Only when the mercury drops can I contemplate an Indian lunch buffet without trepidation. Under tropical conditions, allowing myself free rein at tables laden with richly...
Of all the various film genres, the one that's had the least success in recent years is musicals. Why that is, is anyone's guess; it could be that, like the western, another...
thursday january 12 Dance Month master classes As movement mavens know, it's Dance Month at the Kaplan Theatre. Today, amateurs who are at the intermediate or advanced...
As the "greed" installment in their self-proclaimed "sin season," Theater LaB presents Search and Destroy, Howard Korder's grimly entertaining play about the fast-driving world...
It's known in official bureaucrat-ese as the "Accelerated Vehicle Retirement Program," but even bureaucrats refer to it as "the clunker-junker" or "scrappage" plan. It's the...
Buddy Ace's death of a massive heart attack while singing "Time To Move On" at a Waco nightclub early Christmas morning was an eerily coincidental demise for the veteran...
Word of mouth comes to a fast boil on the foodie circuit: if this is January 1995, any Inner Loopster worth his Kosher salt can be found at the brand-new Daily Review Cafe,...
Writer-director John Singleton's Boyz N the Hood was a triumph of intimate storytelling -- an African-American melodrama set in a bullet-riddled South Central Los Angeles...
NO FEAR," Eric Andell intones to the wretched-looking youth gazing up at him. "Or is it, 'NO FEAR, DEAR?'" Andell is trying to decipher the message obscured in the folds of...
On the phone from his Manhattan office, jazz trumpeter Wallace Roney sounds dubious about the interview from the start, as if he's been through this a few too many times...
Sizzling Bacon One of the nice things about being an American is that part of our birthright is the right to be as ignorant and insulting as we wish to our public figures,...
Scarface The Diary Rap-a-Lot Records/Noo Trybe Records You wouldn't know it from reading the local press, but Scarface and the rest of the Geto Boys are Houston's...
Bad News Leads: The loose-knit Herb Life movement, comprising local Planet Shock! and offshoots Cloud Nine and Laveau's Thursday night Dub House event, had a brush with...
